Panic Stations!
Trying not to panic about my final year project is now becoming a full time job. The number of words that I can write in German appears to be about 250 in four hours. Given that I have got 6000 words of report left to write, it seems an insurmountable task. All I can see in my head when I go to bed are words, words, words, and yet when I sit in front of the computer and try and type them up my brain goes blank and I can't remember even the simplest words. Basically, I don't know how I'm going to get through this last bit.
My word count limit for my dissertation is 10,000 - 12,000 words. The guys over in England have to write 15,000 in English. I already feel like I've got a much bigger task set to me because I have to write in German. The bigger issue however is the structure of the German language - they simply don't use as many words as the Brits. I love that in German you can string words together. As an example, I translated some stuff from my English report the other day about the high temperature strength of the material being improved for use in high temperature applications. High temperature strength translates quite simply to Warmfestigkeit. High temperature applications is even better, that one comes to Hochtemperaturanwendungen. So you see my problem? For 3 words in English I get one in German. I looked at a paragraph I had translated more or less word for word - 73 words in English become just 51 in German. If this happens a lot then I will have written a 15,000 word report if I ever get as far as 10,000 words.
Which seems pretty bloody unfair.
I can't see how I'm going to manage it. Church this morning was full of talk about how God makes the impossible possible and in theory I completely agree but in practise having the faith to believe it is really hard work.
Halp?
My word count limit for my dissertation is 10,000 - 12,000 words. The guys over in England have to write 15,000 in English. I already feel like I've got a much bigger task set to me because I have to write in German. The bigger issue however is the structure of the German language - they simply don't use as many words as the Brits. I love that in German you can string words together. As an example, I translated some stuff from my English report the other day about the high temperature strength of the material being improved for use in high temperature applications. High temperature strength translates quite simply to Warmfestigkeit. High temperature applications is even better, that one comes to Hochtemperaturanwendungen. So you see my problem? For 3 words in English I get one in German. I looked at a paragraph I had translated more or less word for word - 73 words in English become just 51 in German. If this happens a lot then I will have written a 15,000 word report if I ever get as far as 10,000 words.
Which seems pretty bloody unfair.
I can't see how I'm going to manage it. Church this morning was full of talk about how God makes the impossible possible and in theory I completely agree but in practise having the faith to believe it is really hard work.
Halp?